Liverpool Banter 3

09 Oct 2026 20:53:56
Just watched the Thiago and Andoni interview. Wow, Thiago lives and breathes LFC and I think he would be such a valuable asset to have on board. He "gets us" and understands LFC and his relationship with Andoni is something to behold. Get it sorted Julian!

09 Oct 2026 22:10:16
I agree Cornishman. Thiago is a very bright man who knows more than most about football and is clearly close to Iraola. I think he would be a wonderful link between the academy and first team mentoring the many very talented players we have brought to the club in the last 12/24 months.

I would love to see him on the bench in a coaching role as well.

09 Oct 2026 22:14:35
Good watch, hopefully a glimpse of a future working relationship between these two. Would love to see Thiago on staff, incredibly intelligent footballer, would bring a wealth of invaluable knowledge.

10 Oct 2026 10:20:58
He could still probably do a job in our midfield.

09 Oct 2026 18:12:13
I'm not sure City are quite ready for the "welcome" they are going to get on Sunday.

Hell will reign down upon them.

The atmosphere is going to be electric.

09 Oct 2026 19:30:57
Oh dear bricks at the bus window again is it? This is getting a bit daft now.

09 Oct 2026 19:44:28
AAR91, put your tiara away will you.

09 Oct 2026 21:07:22
Really? You don't think throwing bricks at a bus is moronic?

City should be expelled from the PL and by the FA, they should start again in non-league football. Their owners should be compelled to sell the club and it's assets and be banned 'sine dies' from owning a football club.

The players on the coach - were any of them actually play if for the club before, and up to, the end of the 2018? They are employees of the club and have no say or part to play in the operational management of the club.

Violence is pathetic, violence against innocent employees (or anyone actually) is criminal. Thinking someone is weak for not wanting to commit acts of indiscriminate violence is remarkable and shameful. Just my opinion.

Enjoy the day, let them know what we think of them, beat them on the pitch, but put the bricks and bottles down, we are better than that and better than them.

09 Oct 2026 21:23:36
Surely you weren't encouraging throwing bricks at the City bus, Chewy. I don't believe you would be in favour of that. Would you?

09 Oct 2026 21:42:27
It's probably pointless saying it as I'm sure there will be some mindless violence and vandalism.
Attacking their bus doesn't throw them off their game, it just gives them something to galvanise their team spirit.
Support our players, give them your energy, fire them up.

09 Oct 2026 22:08:35
A Manchester United supporter bending over for Manchester City. The game has gone.

09 Oct 2026 22:13:56
Win with class. Just as important as winning. Always think what Jurgen would say.

09 Oct 2026 22:15:28
Our job as fans is to get behind our team and our club. This weekend we also have to represent the best of English football and call out the crooks that run City. No attack on fellow fans or other teams players.

It's not the fans fault that their club is run by cheats. It's not the players fault either even if they benefit from winning by cheating.

09 Oct 2026 22:32:28
Potential powder keg that could spill over to abusing the players.

Preparing for anything, but hopeful of a strong and united voice from the Kop on behalf of football fans.

09 Oct 2026 23:20:57
Maybe it'll be only 114 bricks.

09 Oct 2026 23:46:52
I don't see anybody talking about throwing bricks and I certainly amn't condoning it, let me make that crystal clear, as far as I can tell, Bekind is talking about the atmosphere, if he is talking about throwing bricks he should be banned, only Vik is allowed to insight that level of hatred!

10 Oct 2026 00:25:22
I always enjoy reading posts that end up with a joke about inciting hatred.

10 Oct 2026 10:30:31
The fans can do their job, legitimately, I hope, but it'll be down to the players and coaching staff, ultimately.
I reckon a lot of the City* team will be prepared for the hellish reception tomorrow and I think they are a better side than us, at the moment.

10 Oct 2026 13:30:03
Football is a game. A game. It's Sports Entertainment. And only that, no matter how strongly or weakly you feel about it. What's senseless violence got to do with this? Absolutely nothing and achieves nothing.

10 Oct 2026 15:26:33
Facetious remark about 114 bricks aside, we don't need to resort to violence as it's uncalled for. A cauldron of noise and hostility, that's what they deserve. Let them know they're cheats, let them know the contempt that they're held in. The City players & supporters vicariously gained because of the cheating so they deserve all the jeers and verbal abuse coming their way.

09 Oct 2026 15:23:52
Sunday is a game where 99.99% of fans that love the game will want a Liverpool win. That does not happen very often at all!

City are cheats, its now proven and their punishment needs to be extreme. They have built what they have on lies and cheating. The atmosphere sunday will be volatile to say the least. There cannot be a single second of let up in the noise, the booing and the chanting.

Sadly though I feel City will win. Isak and Gakpo both out and injured is not good news. Leaves us a little short on options. The city players will thrive in the hate I think, and if they score they will definitely celebrate with some kind of raining money celebration.

09 Oct 2026 16:04:26
The announcement that City had been cooking the books was hardly a surprise.

Teams and fans have known for years and it actually shows how awful the Fa or Premier League are that it took a whistle blower to alert them to it that they had falsified up to 900 million.

The powers have be have either been sat there like Stevie wonder or they were very much apart of it and allowing it.

Same as clubs who didn't seem to mind when city were paying over inflated prices for their players.

Hopefully Liverpool do their talking on the pitch on Sunday but let's not kid ourselves into thinking this isn't our hardest game of the season to date.

09 Oct 2026 16:23:11
Let's not underestimate our team. Yes they are not the Klopp era but we are Liverpool and we are unbeaten. We've produced big results in tough circumstances before. Our crowd will be loud and hopefully carry us to victory. Ynwa!

09 Oct 2026 16:44:57
The Refs in England need investigating

Bias & Corrupt.

09 Oct 2026 17:11:08
Think the refs will favour city's opponents more often now so to not look like they on the take too.

09 Oct 2026 17:59:10
I've always been of that opinion JK, corruption knows no bounds and money talks. I'm no accountant, but I just can't fathom how somebody could get away with inflating income by nearly a billion pounds and get away with it for 10 years when there's supposed to be stringent scrutiny over accounting. I mean, either the League's version of APT checks consists of a WhatsApp conversation along the lines of:

PL: Are you lads doing everything by the books? MC: Yes
PL: You sure? MC: Absolutely."
.or they've been greased up more times than Boy George's back passage.

09 Oct 2026 18:39:47
It's our hardest game by a mile, JK. All that matters is 3 pts. No good being a fantastic atmosphere if we don't win.

09 Oct 2026 19:14:37
Chewy agree mate. It always made me laugh when City had a squad of 2 top class world renowned players for every position and their wage bill was still supposedly less than other clubs who didn't even have 1 top class player for every position 🤣.

09 Oct 2026 19:58:56
I'm no financial expert but I think to be fair if they are only checking back statements of clubs its quite easy to get away with as it would only show who's paid the money in, all they had to do would be to pass the money to the sponsor for the sponser to then pay the full amount.
It would need a change in how they check sponsorship deals in the future.

I did find it funny that in there defense they have admitted their guilt though, by saying the extra money come from from a different group to the one being suggested which is still against the rules. There only hope is getting the hacked emails thrown out. Could be wrong but I believe that can only happen if the Premier League was behind the hack.

Also interesting to see what happens with Etihad and their plans to go public as they would have to disclose all their finances which would then prove for sure of the cheating and would leave them open to a lot more problems worldwide due to what they told the USA.

One thing I find strange all this talk of city being stripped of tittles no one seemed to mention the same for chelsea's cheating which to me was equally as bad.

10 Oct 2026 15:30:37
Difference is Arleseyred, is that Chelsea self reported and handed over thousands of pages of evidence against them and admitted liability straight away. Whereas City have obfuscated, lied and attempted to use legal proceedings to slow and stop the investigation at every juncture, they refused to hand over evidence and lied throughout. That's the difference.

10 Oct 2026 16:30:50
I understand that Viktor but doesn't change the fact they cheated also, how many of those players signed may have went elsewhere if not for illegal payments. To me the titles are also tainted same way as City's.

Allowing the titles to remain is basically saying its okay to cheat, that should have been and should always be 1 punishment no matter what the circumstances if coopersting or self reporting that's carried out I have no issue with the other punishments being suspended although it should have been more extreme punishment in chelseas case, even if only suspended still just to set an example for future references.

If you think of what city have done and put new owners in and they self reported like chelsea did I'm sure there would be more of an outrage if they only really got a 10 million fine.
Everton have been the hardest hit through breaching the rules then anybody and even got Burnley suing them for something which in reality was the leagues fault for not tacking action sooner then they did. No one can honestly say Everton benefitted more through their case then chelsea did yet Everton have been done 3 times for the 1 offences. Chelsea over 70. No logic to that regardless of chelsea self reporting.

Out of principle alone more should have been done, and more made out of it.

09 Oct 2026 14:36:57
Iraola has confirmed Isak and Gakpo are ruled out for the game on Sunday. What do people think the front line will look like and particularly who will play centre forward?

Barcola seems first choice with his experience, at the same time, I can't help think that Koumas has that relentless work rate that would be ideal to pile the extra pressure on City's back line, given the situation that could prove very effective. Don't actually see him starting but I do hope he gets minutes, could be huge for the kid.
Thoughts?

09 Oct 2026 14:40:41
Koumas all day long. He is our new Crazy horse/Darwin engine.
Wirtz false 9. Dom in the 10.
Munoz as the other forward.

09 Oct 2026 14:45:06
Wirtz could fill the void as a false 9 and Szoboszlai could play behind him. This would leave Gravenberch and Nyoni to partner Macca.

09 Oct 2026 14:51:03
Barcola-Wirtz-Munoz (Bring on Rio & Koumas if its not working)

09 Oct 2026 14:51:41
Wirtz in the false number 9 with Barcola and Munoz on the wings.
Nyoni, Dom and Mac.

09 Oct 2026 14:58:52
Koumas through the middle. Imagine the already pumped up crowd with him doing his best Duracell bunny impression. Barcola left Dom right. Smother them.

09 Oct 2026 15:13:37
I can see Wirtz playing as the centre forward which would totally contradict the calls that he needs runners ahead of him when playing 10

Koumas might press a lot but he's not really a goal threat as proven with 4 goals in 40 championship games last season.

Whichever 3 from Barcola, Munoz, Wirtz, Rio, Chiesa or Koumas that AI goes with they currently have 1 goal between them for this season.

09 Oct 2026 15:21:14
If Koumas is the backup no9, then put him in. Barcola on the left and Munoz on the right. Wirtz, Dom and Macca in midfield. Don't think we need to rearrange everything.

09 Oct 2026 15:55:04
Rush, Dalglish up front. Terry Mac and Steve Heighway on the flanks. Ian St John always warm and ready to come on.
Tommy Smith waiting in the tunnel for half and full time.

10 Oct 2026 01:48:53
Barcola at CF, Wirtz on the left, Dom in the middle and Rio or Munoz on the right with Trey and Macca behind them.

{Ed666's Note - I wonder if Will Wright gets a place on the bench?

10 Oct 2026 09:53:49
The limited highlights I've seen gives the impression that he is useful - puts himself about, finds a yard of space and knows where the goal is. I wouldn't be surprised if he's on the bench.

09 Oct 2026 10:37:15
Wouldn't mind Ed001's and others thoughts on this.

It's clear our midfield is a bit 'weak' at times and when one goes up field they all follow leaving big holes. Gravy doesn't sit deep enough and for the life of me I don't understand why Endo isn't used in the holding role. It's his position and he's captain of Japan! Never let us down when he's needed yet he wasn't given a sniff with Slot and AI seems the same.

Why isn't he being used - it doesn't make sense to me unless he's not fit?

{Ed001's Note - he has had two years barely playing and injuries, added to advancing years. He should be a good option to close out games still, but I can see why he is not a starter now. Such a shame as he was so good for us and was badly treated by Slot.}

09 Oct 2026 11:11:14
He was brilliant the season before Slot came and I recall Jurgen saying he should've played him more.

Even last season when Slot finally played him, Endo did well that game but was a shame he got injured.

09 Oct 2026 11:12:38
Thanks Ed - pretty much sums it up mate.

09 Oct 2026 11:48:04
We really missed Endo the 24/25 season.

I'd like to see Ai go with a solid reliable spine of Gomez, Endo and Chiesa.

Virg isn't captain material so give it to Endo and finally build the midfield around Bajetic.

09 Oct 2026 13:18:16
Hasn't Bajetic moved on to Celta Vigo.

09 Oct 2026 14:41:57
ever since we weakened the MF by replacing a MF with a forward, we have looked worse.
In this league you need a solid MF 3.
Flo has to play elsewhere. He is the heir to Bobby imo.

09 Oct 2026 14:53:17
That was JK23's "joke" Gaga. He is right too, if was up to some Posters our line up would have Ramsay, Gomez, Endo, Chiesa & Nunez etc. People need to realize that those guys won the lottery when they put on our Jersey!

09 Oct 2026 15:19:29
I didn't see the joke. But read it back and see it now.

10 Oct 2026 10:35:46
Endo has never been brilliant for us.
He doesn't get criticised because he doesn't play.

09 Oct 2026 08:46:57
Breaking news, according to the BBC the Freidkin Group are open to selling Everton. Anybody want to start a kitty? Be nice to have a feeder team and we could use the HD ground for the U-21s.

09 Oct 2026 10:43:53
WDW, start the GoFundMe page. I'm all in.

09 Oct 2026 11:09:37
We can hire Ed025 as the new manager.

{Ed025's Note - you wish Taurus. I will be too busy running Everton mate 🤣..

09 Oct 2026 11:09:42
You interested, Ed25? I can pitch in $5 your way.

{Ed025's Note - every little helps Mfahmee.. 🤣

09 Oct 2026 08:13:22
I ❤️ Ian Holloway.

Talk about nail on the head.

The hate will come to the fella now.

Hope we can beat the cheats on Sunday.

YNWA.

08 Oct 2026 22:24:10
News: Isak & Gakpo missed training today and seem doubtful for City. Jacquet did train today.

09 Oct 2026 10:45:30
Kaiser, I think Isak could be a game-time decision, as to whether he plays or not.

Gakpo is most certainly out, imo.

Jax? Always knew he would be fit for the game.

09 Oct 2026 12:38:29
Any update on Bradley and Ekitike @ Oli?

09 Oct 2026 13:59:06
AI has told us both Isak and Cody are out and sounds like they won't be back for a week or so. Will be interesting to see what he does. A midfield of Nyoni, Macca and Dom with Flo as a false 9?

{Ed666's Note - I’d say Koumas plays because of his pressing and work rate.

09 Oct 2026 19:04:23

To be honest I'm dreading this game. They are much stronger than us. With our injury list I'm holding out for a hero. Koumas could become that lad with Nyomi keeping the midfield solid.

Everything says we should win if there's any fairness in the world.

Sadly I don't see it. As in not sure who scores our goals.

We have to make the atmosphere horrible for them. Everytime they touch the ball the booing should unnerve the cheating T****



So looking forward to this. YNWA

08 Oct 2026 11:23:33
Not an ITK so don't shoot the messenger. But I've heard City are looking to cash in on Haaland as they've agreed a pre-contract with Paul Mullin. They're looking for someone proven in the National League and he fits the bill.

08 Oct 2026 14:56:59
Davey is taking aim. Duck!

08 Oct 2026 20:06:13
Bang bang.

08 Oct 2026 21:22:41
Don't shoot the messenger but I've heard that Richard E Grant is a traitor 😜.

08 Oct 2026 22:35:07
heard City are keen on a swap deal but Roterham are unsure about Haaland as he's not League Two proven.

08 Oct 2026 23:23:03
Aye, but Haaland is Yorkshire born & bread.

Going home, going home
Haaland's going home.

09 Oct 2026 08:50:57
'Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred,
Strong in't arm and thick in't head'

They (not me, I've always been PC) used to say that in the old days.